While waiting for my CBG parts I was browsing CBG videos and I saw this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gWign-qR-o
How can it be so loud even thou the neck is dampening the whole soundboard? What mechanics are working there? It goes against all
Read more…Hi, I have not had time to build a box guitar in a long while, but last week I made the effort.
The inspiration came from having an abundance of timber available from a fence that I demolished, and a reason to build.
The timber is shown in the first
Anything I should know about trying a hardtail bridge on an acoustic guitar. Surely someone has done it before.
The pics are what I'm thinking about trying
I am trying to find any video where someone has taken the 3 lowest strings (E, A and D) from a full set and then put them on an acoustic cigar box guitar and tuned them to DAD or EBE. I would want to know what they would sound like. Do you know about
Read more…has anyone found a way to eliminate the lingering aroma from empty boxes?
Read more…While planning to build a CBG I am reading a lot of theory and I came across a MIT paper about sound hole shapes (https://news.mit.edu/2015/violin-acoustic-power-0210). The paper is for violins, but I think the same principles stand for a guitar. App
Read more…I have been given a couple old hubcaps (rather heavy) which I want to build into 3-stringers. Many questions:
1. Is there an online tutorial you can point me to?
2. What are some good ways to attach the neck?
3. I will have to purchase tools for met
Read more…I am middle age man seriously considering to build a 3 stringed CBG. I have a couple of questions about tuning.
When I was young I used to play a normal acoustic guitar. Since then my voice has been changing so much that almost every single song I ha
Read more…In most videos the piezo disc is sandwiched between the soundboard and the neck running through the box with help of hot glue. This means it is sandwiched between something stable (the neck) and something vibrating (the soundboard).
My question is, w
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I'm building a 6-string electric license plate guitar with a hardtail bridge. Most of the builds I've seen use floating bridges and tailpieces, so I'm having a little trouble figuring this out on my own. Does the area under the bridge need
Read more…If you build a CBG without a tailpiece and with the strings attached to the saddle, how do you get the intonation right? I mean, without a tailpiece you can not move the bridge around until the intonation is good and you can not just put the bridge s
Read more…Apart from a Makita drill, a Dremel and a couple of chainsaws, everything I build is done with hand tools, mostly a few different saws and a Ferrier rasp. This isn't by choice, fwiw, I just don't have a lot of woodworking tools. If you were going to
Read more…Howdy, I am in charge of a church youth group (6 11-13 year old boys). Looking for the simplest plans possible to give them an introduction to building instruments.
Hoping for something that can be done in 1.5 hours (by those with little to no
Read more…Most seem to tune their CBG to 1-5-1 (for example GDG, EBE, DAD). As I have understood this tuning fits well for blues and slide.
I am not really into blues, slides, rock, pop nor any rhythmic strumming, I would mostly play the melody of folk songs a
Read more…I have a few cigar boxes of the pressed board/paper variety and would like tips on proper bracing, etc. when using these boxes.
I have built 2 in the past, a diddley bow and a chugger. All I did for bracing was to scrape the paper from the inside and
Read more…Why are some pick-ups installed at an angle? When there are 2 pick-ups on a guitar, I have noticed that sometimes the second pick-up next to the nut is at an angle to the first one closest to the neck.
Benny
Read more…This is a bit offtopic from CBG. I got a super cheap (70€) acoustic guitar with great intonation. I am trying to see how much I can improve it. So far I have made bone nut and bridge, adjusted the height of the strings, adjusted the truss rod and cha
Read more…A friend and I are building a matching pair of steel string tenor ukes while he's in town (so they need to come together pretty quickly).
General plan:
Merry Christmas CBN!
The celebrations have wrapped up and am spending some downtime in the shop. Three new builds are underway. Red Oak necks. Either Walnut or Maple fretboards with a zero fret.. 25" scale length. Piezo sandwiched between the lid and
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